This course is intended for system administrators who already have some experience with some flavor of UNIX or Linux operating systems.

Experienced system and network administrators getting into linux

Attendees must be familiar with basic operating systems concepts and networking

Description

Linux is fast overtaking all other server OS platforms. For a good reason: Linux offers stability and security that is demanded within enterprises. This requires the systems to be setup and configured correctly. Understanding the fundamentals of the OS and tools will go a long way towards achieving that goal.

This course covers all the core topics that are required by many certification programs. We will discuss some of the popular linux distributions and discuss the relative merits and pitfalls.

For running the class, we will pick a distro from among the following: RedHat, SUSE and Ubuntu.